User Reviews of MySQL

Updated January 2026

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MySQL review

Pranay Jain
Pranay Jain
Software engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Robust relational data foundation has supported rapid growth and improved user...
MySQL can be improved in several ways. It has connectivity errors and administration troubles that sometimes occur, though not consistently. MySQL has slow queries; sometimes when I run a query, it scans the whole table, and if the data is very large, it takes too much time to retrieve the data. There can be resource bottlenecks with RAM...
MySQL review

Prabir Kumar Kundu
Prabir Kumar Kundu
SR AVP–Presales Cloud & Platform Management Services at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Offers robust security and availability with impressive replication capabilities
Regarding their documentation and interface, there is room for improvement. Documentation is definitely required when running multiple databases on a cluster system. The load balancer, MySQL LB, which is used to connect to the application, lacks clear documentation. When there are multiple application servers connecting to the MySQL cluster...

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